{"id":17203,"date":"2015-09-13T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/hacking-the-body-this-implant-can-trap-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:21:05","slug":"hacking-the-body-this-implant-can-trap-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/hacking-the-body-this-implant-can-trap-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Hacking The Body: This Implant Can Trap Cancer Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-the-body-this-implant-can-trap-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is cancer so deadly? It spreads and consumes in a process called metastasis. If it stayed put we\u2019d have an easier fight on our hands. Researchers hope this sponge-like implant could offer an intriguing solution, sucking up circulating cancer cells and warning you of their presence early on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 out of 10 cancer deaths are caused by spreading to other organs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time is often cited as \u2018our most precious resource\u2019. Beating cancer is no exception to this; if we caught every cancer early success rates would be vastly improved. Curing cancer therefore requires more than simply destroying these cells. It also means improving diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/9\/9\/this-implant-can-trap-cancer-cells\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is cancer so deadly? It spreads and consumes in a process called metastasis. If it stayed put we\u2019d have an easier fight on our hands. Researchers hope this sponge-like implant could offer an intriguing solution, sucking up circulating cancer cells and warning you of their presence early on. 9 out of 10 cancer deaths [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51437,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions\/51437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}